07-27-2004, 04:06 PM
Fragbait,Jul 27 2004, 02:18 AM Wrote:<disagree>Mucho agreed,
If it implies that communism is just as bad as dupe/hack-selling or vice versa however, I might say I disagree here. Communism as such is not such a bad thing, it's just idealistic and unrealizable. What made 'communism' appear in a bad light were/are the attempts of some governments to oppressively indoctrinate this system on their state which utterly failed and left a pseudo-communist facade for an authoritarian dictatorship.
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As if Lenin didn't already prove it previously, by the time he put in the New Economic Plan, it was blatent he had fallen off the Ideological Bandwagon. As for Stalin? Oh boy. No proof really needed there. Just look at his rise to power from 26 (when things really got cookin') to 36 (start of public trials). He was like a bad power hungry version of John Kerry. Back and forth between Zinon'ev, Bhukarin, Radick, and every silly on the left and right.